Editorial Page of TEe Journal
TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1904.
PORTLAND, OREGON.
THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL
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JNO. P. CARROLL
C S. JACKSON
Noisy, after all.
Mow put up your blackberries.
evening (except Sunday) and vary Sunday morning at Tha Journal Building. Fifth and Yamhill
treats, Portland, Oregon. "-
Young man. get a home.
Ashland Is legally
drugstores.
dry, but It has
How much real patriotism T
..Deer are becoming
southern Oregon.
plentiful in
OPFI6IAL PAPER OP THE CITV OP PORTLAND
Let us besane for the next 1(4 days.
Oregon Sidelights
BAD FOURTH OF JULY FEATURES.
ON FOURTH OP JULT people living In the country
flock to the towns land many of those living n
the towns flock into the country. Each In this
way get what they most need, which is complete change
In their environment and the ordinary conditions by which
they are surrounded. Hundreds of people from the sur
rounding districts came to Portland and doubtless found
hare the strenuous pleasures which they Sought. If
, their craving, surely
.ouahtfgxiul-gidalll M'hel- desire, nwreThe 1. w4fe whatever In It any more. There la al a
-S' I .:, ami ii1 a atifflclent one for this. 1
f fully satisfied.
I But the day Itself was, after all, a daj of terror to many
of those wlio were unable to get out Into the country. We
hear much of a sane" celebration of the. Fourth and In
tnj-ltricteat sense of the word that is neither poaslble nor
B; desirable. It is a day when the exuberant spirit of
patriotism should have its vent, when the rule which
governs on other days and in other seasons is rightly re
laxed and young America has free swing. But even
within these limits there is a place where the line should
be drawn and that rigidly. For Instance there is no Jus
tification for the atrocious dynamite' cane. Beside this
Implement of torture, particularly In the hands of a rowdy,
the giant firecracker is tame and Innocuous, It was con
stantly In evidence yesterday and it inflicted tortures on
the whole community'. Its use was simply barbarous and
it should not hereafter be tolerated. Neither should any
, one under any circumstances be permitted to use a re-
yolver within the corporate limits of the city. Imple
ments of this sort usually fall into the hands of the most
Irresponsible and reckless. Such people have absolutely
no regard for the rights of others and their delight was to
discharge their weapons without warning Hose to nervous
women, finding their so-called pleasure in the pain which
they so evidently Inflicted. The streets should have been
cleared of youths and men of this stamp. .The public en
joyment of the day would have been greatly increased if
these two din provoking features of the day had been
eliminated and there had gone with them the dynamite
cartridge.
The fireworks feature of the night was a source of much
. pleasure to every one who had a chance to view them at
ease. With the experience of yesterday' fresh in, mind,
some member of the city council should draw up a rea
sonable ordinance regulating future Fourth of July cele
brations. Done in advance the dealers in fireworks
' would know exactly how to regulate their purchases and
thus no loss would fall on them. On the other hand the
people of the city could look forward to a reasonable and
very much more enjoyable celebration
of apprehensively watting It as a day
A NEW PRESIDENT FOR
THE declination of Harvey. Scott of a re-election to
the presidency of the Lewis and t'lurk exposition
opens a broad question which in the interest of
the city, state and section, should be seriously considered
and that at once. The time for the opening of the ex
position is now so close at hand and there still remains
so much to do that a man In the position of president must
necessarily seriously devote all his time and attention to
the fair and the preparations which are going forward
for Its holding. The enterprise has proceeded so far that
the pride of the whole community Is now involved in the
outcome. We must not only have a fine exposition, but if
it is humanly possible it must be ready on the day of
the opening. This is not so difficult a task as it would
have been had we' been forced to draw aH the exhibits
from original sources. As It happens much of the work
. has already been done by St. Louis and a Judicious selec
tion from the masses of material there shown will lay the
foundation for many exhibits here.
It Is only Just to say that we have not done all that
might or could have been done for ourselves in the exhibit
at St. Louis. That has not come up to expectatlona and
none of the returning Oregon visitors are filled with en
thusiasm over what has been done there for the state.
For lack of preliminary preparation and an exhibition of
genuine foresight which is elsewhere shown, other states
which we outrank In many Important products overtop us
completely In the displays which they make. The Journal
la led to say none of these things in a spirit of carping
criticism, but the experience there should furnish lessons
for use at home and It is mach wiser to profit by them
now than to regret them afterward. Aa In every big en
terprise of the sort the actual work falls most heavily
on the shoulders of a few men. These men make the sac
rifice of their time for the benefit of the Whole community
and In a spirit of public pride which will not permit such
an enterprise to fall. The time has now come when our
own exposition must be viewed in the same spirit and
similar sacrifices must be made if we propose to make of
the affair such a success as will lastingly redound to the
credit of Portland.
Whoever may be Induced to step into the breach and
make the sacrifices which the position Involves Is en
titled to the hearty moral support of every citizen, the di
rect aid of every one who can render It and the Energetic
backing of every commercial body in the city. All of
tbia he should have aa a mater of course and he should
know and understand It from the moment he takes charge
of his difficult undertaking.
POLITICAL PARTIES.
m' WWM i - .-m --hh.
THE POPULIST party, granting that -there Is such
a thing, presents a spectacle that would be almost
pitiable If It were an entity capable of physical or
mental suffering. It is In fact, however, only a shadow, a
ghost, a skeleton of a defunct party, a sort of scarecrow
left In the field until husking time.
There ( were less than ZOO delegates in attendance yes
terday when this alleged or pretended national parly was
called to order In Springfield. 111. The mayor of that city,
who was scheduled to welcome the delegates, showed his
contempt for the farce that Is. being played by a corporal's
guard of citizens by staying away, and not even sending t
substitute or making any excuse. Only half the states
nurniH ros
After long experiment by bacteriolo
gists la their employ, the H. K Mulford
company. " chemists, of Philadelphia,
have sent sgents to Texas with in
structions to obtain all the beestings
they can for medicinal purposes. An
for .',0.000 stings waa placed with
tie bee farmer In that stats .
A serum tor Injection through the
kin will be made from the fluid with
which the tiny weapons sre charged. Of
Its efficacy for the er or msumatlsro,
Milton Campbell, manager of the com
pany, saya their experiments have left
no doubt.
The first "experiment" was Inadver
tenl. A farmer afflicted with rheuma
tism waa set upon by a swarm of bees
were represented,
is n;i id to adhere
Time waa when
power In the land.
dosen or so reorese -
came into existence
waa occaalon for lta
burn and flourished
being In vain. But
they might have the Populist party
reason, and a sufficient one. for this
certain specific,
everything else
did four years ago,
the -esult.
of the day, instead i
ot positive terror.
THE FAIR.
.
be wider apart than
will be done there.
cannot control the
one at Kansas city,
tional affairs of
However one' may
and even criticise
has the advantage
the people can understand.
The man who Is
WORD AND
one could hear nothing anywhere but "Word.". The at
convince the voters
basis they had the
tories the state has
Sheriff Word has
a faculty of doing,
snd frightfully stung. His face, neck
and limbs were swollen for days. When
the swelling subsided the rheumatism
was cured.
The Unwashed Dishes.
When the long summer evenings sre
With, us and the front porch has be
come the most attractive, part of the
home, the question arises whether or
not the woman Is Indolent who stacks
her dishes and goes out on the front
porch and visits with her husband and
family.
The question Is most essUor answered
by asking another. Which Is' most Im
portant to the happiness of the house
hold, the washing of a pile of dirty sup
per dishes or the comfortable family
reunion on the cool front atepsf
and these by nobody of national prom
inence except ex-Senator Allen of Nebraska, who U really
ah able man, aa la alao Thomaa E. Wataon of Georgia, who
to this skeleton-scarecrow -of a party.
the Popullat party was a considerable
It carried several states, and had a
ntatlves In congress. It had lta use; It
because there waa need of It. There
existence, else It never woult? have been
to the extent It did. Nothing cornea Into
with the -pswrnia; jf th "hard times
shrunk, dwindled, shriveled, and died.
The men who once made the Populist party a power in
the land went back Into the. did parties. Of thse the late
Governor Rogers of Washington was a type. He frankly
and openly deserted the Populist party when he saw that
It could not be made a great, permanent national party,
and announced himaelf as a Democrat in politics, and as
such was re-elected governor, though he had been elected
four years before, in 1896, as a Populist. Others, Just as
conscientiously and reasonably, perhaps. Joined the Re
publican party. But the Populist party, as such, has been
dead for the past six or seven years. A convention of an
alleged or assumed Populist party la now merely a min
iature political farce.
While all ths is true today, there are those who suppose
that th Populist party may be revived by a bolt led by
Mr. Hryan. f the platform ' adopted and the candidate
nominated at St. Louis do not suit Mr. Bryan, It Is ex
pected by many that lie will revolt, and head a movement
In the Interest of what he conceives to be a "true" Demo
cratic party. But this Is not likely to happen. ' Mr.
Bryan waa It is true, twice the candidate Of the Populist
party, as wen as of the Democratic party, but he was so
as a Democrat, not a Populist.
Names are not so important as character and principles,
yet narnes are necessary, skid there will be for sorrfe time
in the future, as there has been from the beginning, only
two great and principal political parties. There may be
bolts; a portion of a party may temporarily act in op
position or Independently: but In a little while these voters
will drift back and become assimilated with either the Re
publican or the Democratic party.
The Prohibitionists are an excep'tlon. They stand for a
definite principle and policy, considering
of minor consequence; but they are not
likely to grow Into political Importance In the near future.
The Socialist party may do so, after awhile, but not Just
now. Debs will probably receive some more votes than he
but not enough to cut any figure in
AT ST. LOUIS.
THE Democratic party Is far from being united. It
is still divided into two great wings which now
.mfr.l aoK nlhn. a U . T nnl. ., H ...V. Int.
... it uHrei hi . , . uuum aiiu ffiiii.il 11107
ever as a result of the work which
While it is true that Bryan Is not the
overshadowing power he was four years ago and that he
convention at St. Louis as he did the
he Is still a powerful factor in the na
the party and one to be reckoned with
disagree with him in some respects
his relations to certain public affairs he
of standing definitely for things which
now most spoken of for the nomina
tion is Judge Parker of New York. He has an aggres
sive backing, but Just what he stands for no one pre
cisely knows. So far aa the people have been able to
learn of the man himself they have learned nothing to his
discredit. He is a man of ability and of unblemished
character; But it is not so much Parker himself that
the delegates who are opposed to him mistrust as they do
those who stand sponsor for him. At the head of these
is David Bennett Hill, a thoroughly discredited politician
who enjoys neither' the respcet nor confidence of the party
nationally. The financial agent of the combination is
August Belmont, who Is not in politics for his health or
the notoriety which will thus come to him. The rank and
tile of the party Is Justified In looking askance at such a
combination and viewing with some degree of suspicion
the claims of any man-whose fortunes are thus pushed.
If there is some middle ground between these two that
can be definitely occupied and some man selected who will
enjoy the respect and confidence of those naturally allied
with the party It will be possible for It to make the show
ing which a great party should make at the November
election, but not otherwise.
THE COMMERCIAL MEN.
WHAT a lovely lot of hustlers the traveling men
are and how fortunate the nrian in politics (or
out of it) who enjoys their cordial good-will.
Tom Word Was one of them. He was a traveling man; he
Is sheriff of Multnomah county. It Is almost a case of
putting two and two together. When it was. suspected
that he wanted the nomination they went to ,work at high
pressure. Politics wasn't their business, but they took to
It like a duck takes to water. Soon after they started in
mosphere was fairly saturated with the name. All the
men are good single-handed talkers; they have a convinc
ing way about them. What they started out to do was to
that everybody wanted Word. As a
fact that they wanted him. Before they
got through they pretty , nearly proved their case and
helped to score one of trie most remarkable political vic
ever known. . .....
reason 'to be grateful to hla friends
They not only knew WrW but they did it. National politics
cut no figure with therrl. Word was a good man and
square; besides he was one of them. He wanted the place
and the only way for him to get it was for them to- hustle
and the way they did hustle,- day and night, was simply a
sight to behold. They got what they wanted, as they have
and while Tom Word Is happy he is not a
whit prouder of his triumph than the newest man In the
rankgof traveling men who did his level best to elect him.
Spendthrift To ring X.oTr.
From the New Torker.
"When young fellers begins a
oourtln'." said Farmer Ralcede of New
Jersey, "they Jest gits erssy, an' that
thar boy Jim qmle ain't no exception."
"What's Jim bin a-doln?" asked
Farmer Soanreep.
"Hanged If he didn't go Inter town
yesterd'y an' spend a hull quarter fur
a teeth brush!"
. Information.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Unsophisticated Visitor By the way,
why do you enll this the 'piker ' k
Guard f tired of answering the ques
tion) Because it feeds on gudgeons,
suckers and email fry.
The 'east side Is booming. No won
ahw. . ' ... .;
Better burn powder In peace than In
war.
A noiseless Fourth of July is evl
dent l y aa, impossibility.
It 'did rain, perhaps Just to make The
Journal's prediction come true.
Too much or too little rain, no mat
ter; Oregon Is all right, anyway.
Some papers print his name Swallows.
But there Is only one Swallow ol nim.
It is an especial pleasure for moat
people to sprinkle the lawns aiier nours
The suburbs of Portland will surprise
most Portlanders who go through them.
The country districts of Oregon
poured Into Portland many hundreds If
not thousands of visitors yesterday. A
happier and more prosperous looking lot
it would have been hard to find and
the way they enjoyed themselves wss
a sight worth seeing.
JAPAN'S
TT TASK.
treat Difficulties la Its Way of
Success.
Antung Correspondence Chicago News.
Though they minister to our physical
wants, the Japanese are not so ready
to furnish us mental food. A question
to. a subordinate officer, no matter how
trivial, will bring forth one of three
answers:
"I am very sorry I do not know."
"I wul ask the general."
"I am not' told many things."
This Is as It should be. Military ae
crets are not likely to leak out. A gen
eral may tell you that the answer to
your question la a secret. He may give
an answer which haa nothing to do
with your question. He may tell you
the truth. He may tell you a lie. You
never know what to believe. The only
way to get anything Is to send your
interpreter after it. It will take him
half an hour to ask a simple question.
He enters Into 'conversation with an
officer. and skillfully weaves the qu
tlon into the talk. Incidentally, as It
were. In such a marfBer aa not to excite
suspicion. The mere aaklng of a direct
question is enough in itself to excite
suspicion.
The Japanese Is never off his guard.
He alwaya looks for some ulterior mo
tive. He seldom acts or speaks with
out a hidden purpose and he naturally
looks for the same In you. The Jap
anese never gives expression to him
self. Indeed, he does not seem to feel
the necessity for spontaneous exp,ras
slonA Can this be one of the reasons
why there Is no literature of Japan?
It Is certainly a strong element in
their military success.
We were allowed to go to the hos
pital where the Russian wounded were
cared for. The staff officer who ac
companied us had to have a written
pass to get In. The Russian wounded
were certainly well cared for. .The
rooms were clean. The officers were
separated from the men. They had
plenty of bedding and looked comfort
able If not happy. Those of the wound
ed were allowed to move about the
courtyard. Some were waahlng their
clothes; others were sunning them
selves. None of them seemed to feel
the weight of defeat much. One of my
companions asked of a group;
"Do you speak Oerman T"
"We are Jews, and all Jews speak
German."
- Tes, they were a large number of
them Polish Jews, who bad fought
(much better than the officers of the
Slav staff who commanded them) for
a country which they hated.
In the officers' quarters we were not
slow to get acquainted. That com
munity of lntereat which we failed to
nl in our relation with the Japanese
soon put us at our ease with the Rus
sians. They were only too glad to talk
and tell us all about It. I waa astounded
to find that they spoke much better
German than French. I entered Into
conversation with one of the officers
who had been in charge of the guns off
Conical hill.
He tolddjsjkejjiat all the offcers of
his hatti'staJMPcept hlinbelf had been
killed. He Tvaa very Indignant against
the Russian staff. They had all run
away, he said, and left the line, alone
without a head. I asked him how many
Russians were on the fighting line on
May 1. He answered all told about
8.000. They were battalions from va
rious regiments. No complete regi
ment was -present. All the battalions
were east Siberian organizations.
At this point the Japanese inter
preter, who stood at my elbow and waa
taking notea of the questions I ssked,
plucked me by the sleeve. I could see
that he ..ad difficulty In following the
rapidly spoken Oerman.
"Move along," he said. "You have
talked long enough with this man."
I waa somewhat indignant. I had
given no Information, but was only
asking about the facta of the battle,
and I expostulated. The staff officer
Intervened.
"These men are alck men; you must
not overtax them. Besides, you were
aaklng nlm about numbers."
Aa the man to whom I waa talking
had only a slight wound in the leg and
waa moving about freely I Judged the
last reason the real one. It was "in
tended that all the Information which
we got should be official information.
It haa long been evident to me that the
only reaaon the Japanese have taken
ua along Is to use us to make the Im
pression they want On the foreign press,
it turned out that the officer w.lth whom
I waa talking' was the only one who
spoke Oerman tiuently. To be an ob
ject of suspicion Is not pleasant and
I made no further effort to draw In
formation from the Russians. How
ever, they told me enough to make It
clear that no united action had been
taken by tne Russian force on the Yalu.
One thing is certain as I look over
the military situation that If the Jap
anese could strike a blow at some vital
spot In tne Russian army they would
win. The Russian army la undoubtedly
badly disorganised full of Inefficient
officers ""Wbe- hdld their positions only
because they belong to the nobility.
Nothing, however, that Japan can do
even with her splendid army can pre
vent Russia from reorganizing her army
and taking' her time about it.
The present Russian army In Man
churia may mrlt away under the Jap
anese onslaught, but only want of
money., foreign Interference, length of
lima of communication and dissension
at home Wj.. prevent Russians from
putting new armies In the Meld ss Soon
as they are destroyed. It If. indeed,-a
herculean task that -span haa undertaken.
July . We crossed over to the south
and came along the bank of an ex
tensive and beautiful prairie inter
spersed with copaea of timber and
watered by Independence creek. , On
the banks formerly stood the second
village of the Kansas. Judging fi in
the remains it must have been a large
town. We( passed several bad sand
bars snd a" small creek to the south
A MAN WHOM
(Savoyard 'in Denver Post)
-No other state In the American Union
has been represented In the national
house of representatives by so many
able and distinguished men as Ohio.
Four of her representatives attained the
great dignity of president uf the United
States, i Many of them' were more
famous ss senators than they had been
as representatives. Several of them be
came governors of the state. From tne
time of John McLean and Samuel F.
Vinton. Ohio haa ever been a leader in
debate on the floor of the house.
Robert C. Schenck and Allen O. Thur
man were Intellectual giants. Thomas
Corwln was a perfect master of rldlculo
and a consummate actor; S. 8. Cox was
a delightful humorist, a scholar and a
poet, and Benjamin Butterworth was the
first wit of congress that knew Thomas
Jir 'need and the merriest Quaker that
ever was. Josuha R. Glddlngs and Cle
ment L. Vallandlgham were fanatically
devoted to principle, though disagreed
upon every political, question, and It
would be difficult to determine whether
Glddlngs' hatred of slavery was as In-
tenae and as sincere as Vallandlngham'a
love of the Union. Lewis D. Campbell
and John Bherman were practical and
constructive statesmen of the very first
rank. William Allen. John A. Bing
ham and Frank H. Hurd wers superb
orators. William S. Oroeabeck. John A.
McMahan and Ezra B. Taylor were Pro
found lawyera. Jamea A. Garfield waa
In a class by himself, the moat ac
complished man who ever sat In either
house of congress. lie had made in
cursion Into .every field of learning snd
had mastered most branches of knowl
edge. His versatility wss wonderful,
arid had he been less Impressionable,
less like wax and more' like granite, he
would have been the foremost disputant
the Republican party ever had In either
houee greater than Fesaenden, even,
who, waa greatest of them all but he
would not have been president. If It
had been his fortune to supplement his
nine terms In the house with three
terms In the senate, he would have been
the .very first among the scademlc
stateamen of the half a century last
past.
One of the leading men of the Fifty-
eighth congress Is Theodore E. Burton
of Cleveland. He is big enough to kick
out of the party traces, now and then,
and there Is nobody hi ths state, or na
tion, big enough to crack the party whip
over him and make him afraid. He Is
the rivers and harbors committee, and
when buslness"from that council board
la considered in committee of the whole,
Theodore E Burton is mighty. near the
American congress. Why cannot every
constituency learn that it is good policy
to elect b Rains to congress?
In the fifties Ben Wade was in his
prime and a citizen of Jefferson, Ashta
bula county, In the western reaerve. It
was a Puritan community, peopled by
New England families, provincial, fa
natic, lntenae, exemplary, ignorant, and
prejudiced. It was strong on abolition
ism and ready to violate the supreme
law of the land for It, ready even to
fight for it. When slavery waa yet an
Institution at the south Hinton Rowan
Helper, who I have not a doubt in the
world la the original of Charles Dickens'
"Gradgrlnd" wrote a book on the sub
ject. It waa a celebrated publication.
purported to deal in facta, and Its ob
ject was not so much to free the negro
from slavery as it waa to free the south
from slavery. The argument waa that
the institution "was unprofitable, and If
the south would make money she must
rid herself of her niggers. What scenes
of blood and tears, what scenes of ruin
and deapalr, what rigors of conqueat anf,
oppression the southern people would
have escaped If, in 1868, they had seen
slavery with the eyes of this English
man from North Carolina
There was another book written on
the same subject by a woman, Mrs. Har
riet Beecher Stowe. There was not a
fact in It all fiction from beginning to
ending, and extravagant fiction at that.
Indeed, In the light of common sens it
was absurd.
Ashtabula county accepted the fiction
aa gospel, and, doubtless, resented .the
fact, because the- Indorsement of the
latter book coat John Sherman tne
speakership, and perhaps the presidency
alao. i '
And. here at Jefferson, when the
slavery question reeked from every po
litical pore, Theodore Burton was born.
That waa In 1C61. He got considerable
book learning In his youth, snd at the
age of .1 yeara was graduated from
Oberlln, doubtless the most narrow
minded college In the world. He studied
law, waa admitted to the bar, and in
1875 began the practice at Cleveland.
He was no lazybones, but a student end
a thinker, and looked on life as some
thing to be lived and not squandered,
and so he persevered, and clients never
yet failed a. man whir treated the pro
fession after that fashion. He wss soon
successful practitioner and a rising
man, though he never reached the place
at the bar held by Virgil Kline or An
drew Squire or W. E. Sandera or John
H. Clarke. He never had that gen
us for the law with which Rufua P.
Ranney. Morrison R. Walte. Allen O.
Thurman and John A. McMahan were
endowed. Perhaps his mind wss too di
rect and downright to follow the law In
lta sinuous courses, now here, now
there.
In 1188 the Republicans nominated
Mr. Burton for congress and he was
elected. He Is not what Is commonly
called and generally miscalled "a men
of the people." He does not love a
crowd. He does not care to mix with
the rabble. He never flattered the
vulgar herd for votes. He is a stud
ent, almost a recluse, and whatever pop
ularity he enjoys is a tribute to his In
tellect and his character. Boon the
city of Cleveland began to suspect that
this Burton was the man to do its busi
ness In congress, and hence he does not
have to take a ready-made platform, or
a ready-made party machine along with
the nomination. Samuel J. Randall and
Alexander H. Stephens were that sort
of men, snd they sre the salt of a repre
sentative republic.
It la true that Tom Johnson beat Mr.
Burton for congress in 18)0, but that
which we called Yellow Ochre creek.
from a bank of that mineral a little
above It. The river continues to fall
On the shores are great quantiea of
Miintmar anri fall am naa htflr are not
so abundant as usual, but there are
numerous tracks of elk around ua We
camped at 10 miles' distance ,on the
sooth side of a high bank, opposite
which was a low land covered with
tall rushes and some timber.
OREGON NEEDS
was the year the people expressed their
opinion oi tne jnrty-nrst congress, ana
there were but 88 Republicans returned
In the whole Union. Even a majority
of the New England delegation were
Democrats three of the New England
states unanimously so. Joseph G. Can
non himself went down In . defeat. It
was in 1884 that Mr. Burton was again
elected, and be has been a. member ol
the house ever since. .
Thomaa B. Reed waa speaker of the
Fifty-fourth congress, and he recognised
In Mr. Burton a superior man and gave
him an advantageous committee assign
ment, if there was one thing in the
world that Mr, Reed abominated above
all other things it waa a dunce in con
grass, and his contempt for such a man
became ah Intense hatred. But no man
had a more cordial greeting for a cap
able member, and the last few years of
his public life were spent In a search
for the best material In congress on
whom to bestow advantageoua places
In the organization. But It wss not un
til the retirement of Warren B. Hooker
that Mr. Burton became chairman of the
rivers and harbors committee.
It III nll 'iinf " P"" important com
mittee ami makes and unmakes states
men. Twenty years ago It unmade a
president, for If Chester A. Arthur had
not vetoed a river and harbor bill, he
would have secured the nomination at
Chicago, and had he been nominated he
would have been elected. It was rivers
and harbors that' made Charles F, Crisp
speaker, an event that had momentous
consequences In its effect upon the Dem
ocratic party and upon the country
Mr. ('etchings of Mississippi threw his
Influence to Crisp solely for the rea
son that Roger Q. Mills wss not a
very good friend of rivers snd harbors
aa they appear In congressional appro
priations, and It was Catchlngs adroit
management that turned the acale; that
nrougnt tne springer louowing into
the Crisp camp. To come down to the
mere vulgar, concrete, material advan
tags secured for his state and section
by a single member of congress, Tom
Catchlngs stands first of our solons
of the past half a century. - The millions
he secured for the improvement of the
lower Mississippi were worth hundreds
of millions to the producers of the great
valley, upper as well aa lower. Pete
Hepburn haa an annual speech, which
he makes against the Mississippi river.
It is s good speeeh, very eloquent and
very provincial. Congress roves to hear
It and knows that it is money in Iowa's
pocket to secure the lower valley from
ovornow.
Mr- Catchlngs Illustrates the whimsi
calities of politics. Though he had done
more for his people than both senators
and all his fellow members put together
he agreed with Grover Cleveland that a
dollar was 100 cents. They order thlnga
better In Ohio. Mr. Burton does not be
lieve In a stand-pat tariff, but the Re
publicans of Cleveland keep on voting
for him all the same.
Mr Burton has done ss good work for
the Great Lakes as Catchlngs did for
the great river. When be became chair
man of rivers and harbors, Cleveland
waa not much more Important as a lake
porP than Ashtabula or Contaeaut. Ha
secured large appropriations for Cleve
land, and so greatly has the harbor been
Improved that It Is now one of the most
Important of all the lake porta. The
ores from the Superior mines, on thslr
way to the Pittsburg furnaces, are trans
shipped here, and that business of Itself
would make It one of the busiest har
bors on the' lakes. The people of Cleve
land know whom they have to thank for
thla. and that Is why they are In love
with Burton and resolved to ' hold a.
seat for him ae long as he can be in
duced to stand for It. They feel toward
htm aa Philadelphia felt toward Samuel
J. Randall, and that Is why he may, with
perfect Impunity, tinker with the tariff,
oppose an Imperial navy and condemn
the ship subsidy scheme of .hla late
fellow townsman, Mark Hanna. In the
ordinary anticipation of the. word. Bur
ton Is a poor politician. He is not - a
hand-shaker nor a baby-kisser. He calls
few men by their "given names and
slaps even fewer of them upon the back.
He works on wires at the primaries, but
he selects his own managers. He la the
highest order ot politician he haa con
vinced Cleveland that he Is the man to
do her business in congress.
The river and harbor bill is one of
the things any ordinary congressman
can make a good speech on either side
of. If . we are to believe the Congres
sional Record, a man named Updegraph
kept congress laughing a whole week
at his assaults on the "pork" of a rlvef
and harbor bill. S. S. Cox made a very
witty speech oh the question that haa
been several times "warmed" over.' It
waa John G. Carlisle who answered thst
he would not object to sn appropriation
to MnAdamlze the stream when he was
a rising young member, and waa asked
If he did not want the Licking river' In
the rivers and harbors appropriation.
One of hla successors got 125,000 for
the "navigation" of It.
Mr. Burton la one of the first de
baters in congress after the order Of
John G. Carlisle rather than Stephen A.
Do'uglas. He Is not a genlua. He Is
unable to Jump Into a debate and make
a great speech on a subject he knows
nothing about and earea leas about.
When he la on hla legs making a speech
be sure he haa obtained all the Informa
tion in regard to the question that la to
be had, and given It long, careful and
laborious study. He Is seldom eg the
floor of the house, and when he is there
It Is not to attrnct the gas of the gal
leries. He Is generally In his com'
mtttee room poring over-books and pa
pers, and that is a very good way to
make a first-class legislator. When he
Is on the floor It Is for the purpose of
transsctlng public business, not to loaf
or to gossip.
His management of a rivers snd hsr
bors bill Is the wonder snd despair of
his followers. There hss been nothing
like It In congress since thst other Ohio
man greater than Burton Robert C.
Bchench, conducted a general tariff bill
In committee of the whole. There waa
not an Item of the bill that Schenek
did not understend snd that he would
not defend, and there were upwarda of
A disturbance in a Houlton church
arouaed the active ire of a fighting parson.
Five-year-old twins had fun with
matches, near Woodburn burned their
papa's barn.
An ex-newspaper man is a Coqutlle
City evangelist. ' What a change was
there, brethren.
Rainier Is becoming quite a manufac
tng town, a. big aoap factory being the
latest development.
A new telephone line Is to run from
Eugene tor Florence, on the coast, via
Elralra (not N. Y.)
A man back of Goble harvested 8,000
pounds of strawberries, worth 4 cents a
pound, from an acre.
Mining operations in southern Oregon
and In the Bohemia district, are Increas
ing and expanding rapidly.
The carnival queen's. ' reign is all
right. In its way, but some cloud's rain
would be .better appreciated.
It la a good time to kill thistles, of
which there are too many in both town
and country, all over Oregon.
Albany Democrat: Once a day Is
enough for airy boy to bathe, and he
shouldn't make it an all day affair.
Raspberries and cherries are also
raised In the Hood river valley. In large
quantities and of first class quality.
Ashland Tribune: Olve us new side
walks, or tear up the old ones and let
us go back to the cow trails of our
fathers.
The Woodburn Women's Lewis and
Clark Fair club Is putting up pint Jara
of fruit for -exhibition and distribution
next year.
Only a fool will steal a bicycle In
Salem and aell It In Albany Albany
Democrat. Where would . a wise man
steal it, or sell It?
North Yamhill Record: A lsdy In
Tillamook county advertises for a man
to slash. Bachelors hereafter will no
doubt steer clear of Tillamook.
Borne people go to a place where there
Is a. celebration to celebrate, and some
who live there go where there la no
celebration or would like to.
About 100,000 crates of strawberries.
equal to 141 carloads, were shipped from
Hood River this season, and lots went
to waste or were given away besides.
Hood river people, notwithstanding
the Columbia river flows past their
doors snd Hood river through their
midst, are complaining of a scarcity of
water.
F. J. Hard, working Bohemia prop-
ertlea, will abandon the boarding and
bunk-house system, and build cottage
for the miners, most of whom have
families.
Roosevelt and Fairbanks' unanimous
nomination is explained. For several'
weeks before the convention the Gervala
Star had kept their namea at the head
of lta editorial columns.
The Davenport Bros.' mill In Wasco
county has started up, with a capacity
of 75,000 feet a day. They own 150.
000,000. feet of lumber. They are build
ing a' big water ditch, and expect later
to pipe water to Hood River.
Forest Orore - Tlmea: Prof. J. W.
Marsh left for the eaat to attend the
commencement exercises of the Uni
versity of Vermont, from .which he was
graduated 47 years ago. He came to
Forest Grove 17 years ago and ' hss
never been back to the old home since.
Eugene Register: Albany is Just now
reaping the benefit of a street carnival
held In that city whereby a small lad
aged 11 years ran away from home In a
earn! villous mood. Several young girls.
Infatuated with the life of oarnlval
women, are under aurvelllance to pre-
Urent them taking a similar route to
tnat or tne runaway boy.
4.000 of them. He told the coat of the
finished product and of the raw material,
the domestic production and the foreign
Importation, wages at home and wages
abroad, the effect on production and the
effect on consumption, the consequences
to trade and the consequences to reve
nue, and all that. His speeches stamped
him as one of the greatest debaters
under ths five-minute rule perhaps the
greatest our country has ever produced.
Hurton conducts a rivers and harbors
bill after the same fashion. He knows
every river and harbor In the union.
and in Kurope. He knows the volume of
water, the depth of channel, the recom
mendation of the engineers, the tonnage
existing and the tonnage prospective.
All these things he has at Instantaneous
command, and so wonderful la his grasp
of them that it has been said that he
knows ths conditions, the wants and the
possibilities of commerce of all the
rivers and harbors of the country better
than any other congressman knows them
of any one river o any one harbor.
It Is s feat of memory that equals Me-
Cauley's repeating In their order the
archbishops of Canterbury and the lofd
ohancellora.
And there Is little doubt that Theodora
E. Burton could manage a tariff bill
as well as he does a river and harbor
bill, and that Is the supreme test.
From the Salem Statesman.
As the time approaches for the an
nual meeting of the Chautauqua aoclety,
at Oregon City, It will be in order to
remind the management of the very In
adequate sanitary conditions prevailing
mere last year, ana or tne promise to
have them remedied In time for this
yesr's assemblage. The knowledge that
this baa not been done. If It haa been
neglected, would keep marry people away.
There la no spot In Oregon better suited
by nature for such a gathering aa usual
ly assembles at the Chautauqua meet
ings st Oregon City and ths otherwise
perfect surroundings should not be
marred by a continuance of the sanitary
conditions that have heretofore pre
vailed there. Aa a result of the grati
fying financial success attending lta
meeting last year It was given out that
the surplus funds would be used for
this purpose, and the Statesman would
be pleased to announce to the public,
that the aaauranoe has been consummated,